DEAD DONOR RULE

French court green lights export of sperm to circumvent dead donor rule

Xavier Symons | 04 June 2016 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule, France, law, sperm freezing

Wife's lawyers call the decision “extraordinary and unprecedented”

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An eloquent defense of euthanasia by organ removal

Xavier Symons | 06 December 2014 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule, euthanasia, organ transplantation

In a recent article in the journal Bioethics, two Oxford bioethicists provide a lucid defense of euthanasia by organ removal.

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What does the public really think about the dead donor rule?

Xavier Symons | 11 October 2014 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule

A study in the Journal of Medical Ethics claims that the US public is in favour of waiving the dead donor rule in certain circumstances.

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Why wait until death for organ donation, asks Canadian bioethicist

Michael Cook | 23 March 2013 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule, harm, organ donation

More erosion of the dead donor rule in the latest issue of the Cambridge Journal of Healthcare Ethics.

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Why wait for death to remove kidneys from brain-damaged patients?

Michael Cook | 02 June 2012 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule, transplant surgery

In the latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, Paul E. Morrissey, of Brown University, in Rhode Island, suggests that both kidneys could be removed from brain trauma patients on life-support.

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Is it morally wrong to take a life? Not really, say bioethicists

Michael Cook | 27 January 2012 | Comments

tags: bioethics, dead donor rule

Is it morally wrong to kill people? Not really, argue two eminent American bioethicists in an early online article in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, of Duke University, and Franklin G. Miller, of the National Institutes of Health believe that “killing by itself is not morally wrong, although it is still morally wrong to cause total disability”.

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Alarm at proposal to scrap dead donor rule

Michael Cook | 06 November 2011 | Comments

tags: dead donor rule, organ donation

Let’s scrap the fiction that most patients are dead when their organs are removed and allow doctors to take them from people who are still living. This is the provocative proposal by doctors from Canada and Spain which is creating a stir in bioethics circles.